As we know, resilience is all about bouncing back after adversity, not just giving up, it’s about finding new ways of moving forward, being flexible and adaptable. Its all about you and how you interact with your environment.
Skills development in the areas of listening and being organised, mindfulness and self-care when things are going well and having mutually supportive people in your personal and professional life are ways to maintain personal wellness at work. Having these things in place will support us to thrive rather than just ‘surviving’ and leaves us with adaptive and flexible responses. Developing self-efficacy: completing tasks at hand and being able to set aside nagging internal voices, also helps us be resilient at times when we are feeling down.
Resilient people ASSESS, LEARN, PLAN vs ASSUMING, COMPLAINING and QUITTING even if the situation is difficult.
And finally and not surprisingly, working on your own won’t necessarily make you resilient. The research suggests that resilience is learned and we need to work and support others as resilience needs a systematic and ecological approach (getting everyone involved) and have supportive networks to change.
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